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How to Brew: Everything You Need To Know To Brew Beer Right The First Time

Comparing How to Brew to the old standard brewing manual, The New Joy of Homebrewing makes the latter seem immediately outdated. With the explosion of microbreweries, appreciation of good-quality beer, and brewing at home across the country, this book is the revelation that makes buying anything but the best from the convenient store immediately outdated. With so many people trying different methods and equipment, brewing has become simpler and ideas about what was necessary have been discarded. The techniques and equipment in this book are the product of a lifetime of old resources compiled and years of trial-and-error. And now, more than ever, there's infinite resources available via mail order and on the net. You can start with it by making extract only beers, graduating to specialty grains in addition to extract, then to all grain brewing and making your own recipes and beer styles. This book makes homebrewing easy.